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Survey: Vets worry most about suicide

The nation’s newest combat veterans – those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan – say the biggest challenge facing their generation is suicide, according to a survey by the group Iraq and Afg...

DATE: Aug 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Labor unions getting creative

Declining membership prompts unified effort

DATE: Aug 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. issues travel alert

Al-Qaida threat leads to closure of 21 embassies

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Judge blocks horse slaughter

Companies aim to open plants in N.M.

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Legislators’ health care to be paid by taxpayers

WASHINGTON – Under a forthcoming fix from the Obama administration, American taxpayers will continue paying for most of the health benefit costs for members of Congress and their aides who a...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court won’t delay release of California inmates

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the early release of nearly 10,000 California inmates by year’s end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry Brown and other state of...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Arkansas school official calls hiding from gunmen ‘failed policy’

CLARKSVILLE, Ark. – The superintendent of an Arkansas school district who wanted to let teachers and janitors carry 9mm handguns on campus said Friday that the district will find other ways...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nation/World Briefs

Proposal would require details on NSA efforts WASHINGTON – Exactly how many phone records of Americans does the National Security Agency collect in its massive surveillance p...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kerry tries to defuse flap over comments

LONDON – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry backed away Friday from his candid comments that seemed to signal American support for the Egyptian military coup and the ouster of President Moha...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House approves bill to repeal Obamacare – for 40th time

WASHINGTON – For the 40th time, Republicans pushed legislation through the House on Friday targeting President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, this one a bill preventing the Internal Re...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. employers add 162,000 jobs in July

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy is steadily adding jobs – just not at a consistently strong pace. July’s modest gain of 162,000 jobs was the smallest since March. And most of the jo...

DATE: Aug 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Wildlife agency ignored whistle-blowers

WASHINGTON – Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe failed for more than a year to discipline two supervisors who retaliated against whistle-blowers at an Oklahoma field office, the Int...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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